Thing Plus ESP32 WROOM (USB-C) Wifi interfere with onboard RGB LED

Hi,

Every time I start Wifi on the Thing Plus - ESP32 WROOM (USB-C) board, it automatically turns on the onboard RGB Led to full brightness, in white, even though I’ve got no code controlling this at all. The LED remain on full white doesn’t matter what I do, disable/ turn off wifi… The only way to turn the led off is to send the system to deep sleep (the light is still on during deep sleep), and reboot without the wifi on.

Also tested that I can control the LED with code before Wifi in on. Then when wifi is on, the LED is on full white, there’s no control of the LED anymore. I’m using “Freenove_WS2812_Lib_for_ESP32” to control this LED. Even set the GPIO02 pin to zero doesn’t work either.

Has anyone seen this at all? Is it likely to be a board/controller issue or is it just my board faulty? I can’t seem to guess what could have gone wrong to make it like this. This RGB LED has a controller (WS2812) that needs active output to work. So I’m sure how it could just turn on by itself.

Solved! It turns out I’ve been using the wrong board in Arduino IDE. Now change to “Sparkfun ESP Thing Plus C” and everything is good.